QDOS-sbl proud to provide Telephony solutions to the largest InterContinental Hotel in the Americas

QDOS-sbl and IHG’s USA Global Technology and Services team have successfully worked together on a number of notable projects, so QDOS-sbl were delighted to be tasked with providing a Voiceware by PhoneSuite Hospitality Telephone System to the newly opened InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.

Located in the Wilshire Grand Building, the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown is the fifth hotel owned by Korean Air and its parent company, Hanjin. Costing an impressive $1.35 billion to develop, the hotel has already been awarded ‘2018 Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Choice Winner’ and ‘2018 Travel + Leisure World’s Best Hotel’.

With 889 elegantly appointed guest rooms and 95,000 square feet of event space, the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown is the latest in a crop of new skyscrapers forming the L.A. skyline and is the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. Standing 73 stories and 1,100 feet tall in the core of Downtown’s historic, entertainment, financial, arts, and sports districts the hotel is ideally placed at the heart of the energy-charged urban centre of the United States’ second-largest city. The hotel’s rooftop bar, Spire 73 is not only the tallest open-air bar in the US, but also the tallest anywhere in the Western Hemisphere.

IHG’s comprehensive telephony requirements for the hotel included:

The new Telephone System had to use the latest SIP phones for operational areas with new wireless and bedside phones in the guestrooms.

The Telephone System had to use the latest VoIP technology and provide hospitality industry features at a cost-effective price.

The system had to integrate fully with Opera Property Management System.

Full redundancy was required to provide a seamless cutover if required so as to prevent disruption both to guests and staff.

The Solution

Built using the latest VoIP technology, QDOS-sbl delivered a Voiceware by PhoneSuite Telephone System. The platform is designed specifically for hotel use, with over 4,000 telephone systems deployed cost-effectively across North America, to meet IT Brand Standards.

VTECH contemporary 1 Line Cordless SIP phones were deployed in the guestrooms with VTECH Lobby phones installed in public areas. Staff and guests can now utilise the full set of advanced features available in Voiceware.

With the Voiceware by PhoneSuite Hospitality Telephone System having been pre-built and fully tested prior to deployment the commissioning process was a straightforward, seamless one.

Staff were fully trained as to how to make, take and distribute calls on the new Polycom SIP Handsets, and Consoles prior to installation to ensure effective call handling and customer service from day one.

The Voiceware by PhoneSuite platform can be run locally or hosted in the Cloud, allowing the hotel to keep system maintenance responsibility in-house, whilst utilising the experts at QDOS-sbl to monitor and update the system.

The Voiceware by PhoneSuite platform is feature rich with the best of today’s and tomorrow’s phone system technology. Powerful, modern administrative features, advanced guest tools and interaction capabilities, and a new and more efficient approach to front desk communications is standard.

How it Works

For Guests:

Wakeup calls and voicemail prompts including scheduling of daily, weekend only, and weekday only calls. Wakeup messages can include the weather forecast, snooze, and transfer to room service options.

Setting wakeup calls is intuitive and fast with a complete activity log to see who set, answered or cancelled wakeup calls.

Integrates with Opera Property Management Systems.

For Hotel Staff:

Ability to run full-featured SIP phones from a variety of manufacturers, including soft phones.

Extensive find me/follow me capabilities.

Voicemail to email forwarding.

Ability to handle multiple calls simultaneously.

Unlimited call/staff groupings, ring groups, and role-based queues.

Automatic or on-demand staff call recording.

Unlimited number of extensions.

Simon Catterick, CEO QDOS-sbl Group said “With QDOS-sbl having now successfully deployed Voiceware by PhoneSuite Telephone Systems for IHG branded hotels in the USA and Canada, from Los Angeles to New York and Texas to Ontario we look forward to working with IHG’s USA Global Technology and Services team and successfully installing Hospitality Telephone Systems to many more hotels in the America’s in the months and years ahead”